THE WORD FORMATION PROCESS IN BBC NEWS ON THE INVASION OF RUSSIA-UKRAINE

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the types of word formation processes used in four BBC News online articles on the issue of the invasion of Russia-Ukraine, to find out how those word formation processes occurred in each of the articles and to provide an explanation for the dominance of the type of word formation processes that is most frequently appears in the articles. This study employs the qualitative descriptive method, and the data is analyzed and classified in accordance with George Yule's (2020) theory. The researcher discovered 250 data on the word formation process in the articles. Borrowing with 0,8% of 2 data, compounding with 25,2% of 63 data, clipping with 0,8% of 2 data, conversion with 3,2% of 8 data, derivation with 68,8% of 172 data, and multiple processes with 1,2% of 3 data. Derivation is the most common type of word formation process found in the articles, while borrowing and clipping are the least common. From the seven types of word formation processes, coinage is the only one that is not found in articles. Derivation as the most frequent type of word formation process appears dominantly since it is the most common method in the creation of new words, it is tend to be easy to use and blend it with affixation to create new words, and it is because many parts in the articles tell about terms in nouns, adjectives and adverbs on today’s war and rarely heard and seen from everyday life that English learners or readers need to know them.